Chinese Spacecraft Emitting Strong Signal Over North America

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[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Any sovereign country should interpret any unannounced sensor reading as a declaration of war.

The US recently disclosed that their anti-medium range (tactical) ballistic weapons work very well. ICBMs are even easier to intercept.

I have no doubt that counter-measures for nuclear weapons are already so good that the US will dominate in a nuclear conflict. The technology required to build science fiction weapons has existed for at least 15 years. Are we supposed to believe none of that technology was used when the F-22 was developed in 1997? What happened? Did they one day believe that perhaps they innovated enough? No, that's not how it works.

If the US ever actually is meaningfully attacked, some wonder weapons will probably magically appear that have been sitting on shelves for a few decades.

[–]MagicMike 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Trump has said this several times: “Weapons like no one has ever seen before…”

[–]binaryblob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He should have kept his mouth shut, but I think there is virtually no limit to what technology can do.

It's in the best interest of the US to have a fully working nuclear shield working, but in such a way that almost nobody knows about it. Depending on the level of technological sophistication, it's probably possible to make a global working nuclear shield with just a hundred people even knowing it exists with just three or four that know the operational details. It's even possible to reduce that number to zero in principle, although that would not be recommended and you would have to shoot everyone with knowledge of the project.

[–]Musky[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

We have a hard time shooting down conventional missiles. In a nuclear attack I think we're just going to have to take some hits and rely on their weapons being Made in China and prone to failure.

I hope I"m wrong and they do have a space laser armada or UFO weapons or something crazy.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I recently read a credible explanation for UFOs, which is that they are US aircraft that don't follow the rules regarding the use of nuclear power sources in flying vehicles. If UFOs aren't just a complete hoax to begin with, that is.

If you are a superpower, why would you not break the rules? Especially, if you can say that a big bad company did it and you had no idea it was happening.

[–]Musky[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

recently read a credible explanation for UFOs, which is that they are US aircraft that don't follow the rules regarding the use of nuclear power sources in flying vehicles

I was going on about that a year or two ago wrt FTL. It would make a certain amount of sense.